Suit Pulls Ready to Die off the Shelves
More legal trouble for Diddy & his Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment, this time a jury decided that the title track "Singing in the Morning," violated copyright infringement. The jury awarded Bridgeport Music and Westbound Records, $4.2 million in direct and punitive damages. In addition, the Judge ordered immediate stop of sales of Notorious B.I.G.'s and one of Rap all-time albums, Ready to Die. Labels: Bad Boy Records, Biggie Smalls, Diddy, Lawsuit
NY NewDay reports more:The sales ban imposed by U.S. District Judge Todd Campbell affects the album and the title song in any form, including Internet downloads and radio play. It was unclear when or how the ban would take effect.
The jury decided that Bad Boy Entertainment and executive producer Sean "Diddy" Combs illegally used a part of the Ohio Players' 1992 song "Singing In The Morning."
Bridgeport Music and Westbound Records, which owned the song rights, have filed hundreds of lawsuits over "sampling," the practice of lifting parts of old music for new recordings. Most were settled out of court.
The companies get most of their income from song royalties by their artists, which include funk legend George Clinton, the Funkadelics and the Ohio Players.
posted by Gilbert Sam, Jr. at 12:47 AM
2 Comments:
I Don't Think It's Fair How Now After Many Years They Just Now Are Realizing A Cover Song From Someone Else Being Used By Bad Boy Even Though It Was Illegal I Just See It As A Way To Bring Bad Boy Ent.Down Even More!
5:35 PM
Bad Boy looks like their getting the fresh new look. Possibly there was alot of house cleaning, with the incorporations of a talented producers that have the ability to play at least two instruments.
Maybe it was time for some new types of music. Specifically, developing another vein of the hip hop.
Awakening the music industry, Bad Boy entertainment and other hip hop labels isn't an easy task. The task can be described like the following:
....Its like waking your father or godfather when he says he is taking a nap. He gives everybody the look with the crunched eyebrows(the do not interrupt my nap look).
The whole family(brothers, sisters, uncles, even former girlfriends) sends you because you happen to be the one that makes him laugh. Because everybody knows it hard to make adult New Yorkers laugh.
And in the softest voice you try to wake him, everybody is standing in the wings watching.
There is a flutter in "my" heart, as the moment arrives and i realize I have to awaken him.
His assistant arrives with the paper towels he requests. Those Chicago ceiling lights are hot.
He looks at me, looking like him in a room full of cameras,my hair was apricot color, wearing a cream sweater and jeans, standing in the back of the music conference between the two men who started it all, the two who ruined his relationships, his loves,
his lives.
In the biggest, loudest voice we say to him, "Don't talk to them, their not your friends." We are your family and we love you.
Boy was I feeling like jesus, I am grateful he woke before I was...well, everybody knows that story.
Now he is awake... And the saga continues.......
And that is how it feels to awaken the CEO in the stratosphere of entertainment,in order to change and develop a new sound in popular music.
It is no different from awakening your sleeping father,husband, brother,or uncle.
10:57 AM
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